The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena /
He shows how the political situation of the church in Italy and a culture that privileged female spirituality and prophetic speech facilitated Catherine's emergence into a public role."--Jacket
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Catherine's vocational years : worldliness and female sanctity
- Catherine enters Tuscan politics : networks and letter writing
- Niccolò di Toldo and the erotics of political engagement
- Catherine's Sienese famiglia : pious networks and political identities
- Prophetic politics : Catherine in the War of Eight Saints.